Summarising "Good" & "Bad" Foods

When you are trying to lose weight if your diet contains foods that are nutrient dense, satiating, and low in calories, you’re on to a winner when it comes to fat loss.

Hence why most diets recommend – a lot of lean protein, fruit, and vegetables

So it a good idea to include these things often, not just for health benefits, but to make life easier when creating a calorie deficit, because you are going to be less hungry.

However! Eating foods that only fit in this category is going to start to feel a hell of a lot like you are on a diet – and pretty soon you will get bored.

And when you get bored it is likely you will spend the next 3 months bingeing on all the foods you cut out and deprived yourself of. Which will render those weeks of just chicken and veg pointless.

Remember nothing changes the fact that creating a calorie deficit is the only way to elicit fat loss. The only reason those old diets got results by removing things like pizza, chocolate, alcohol, was because in doing so, you created a calorie deficit.

It wasn’t because those things are bad for you or are inherently fattening.

If you could withstand the hunger, you could still eat only chocolate and lose fat if you created a deficit.

So there is no need to cut out or demonise any foods. You need to find a balance.

The reality is, it’s all just food. Some foods are nutrient dense, some are energy dense, some both – some neither. They all have their benefits and are necessary to be included for different reasons.

If you want to lose weight and finally keep it off, then this inclusion of the wine, the pizza, the pints, is just as important as the chicken and veg.

When you lose weight without having to remove things completely from your diet, you create a diet for yourself that is sustainable, so the progress you make, can last the rest of your life!